What makes AI good at microcode is less that it's good at microcode and more that processors are now so powerful that they don't need good microcode to run sufficiently well for the purpose.
Maybe this is the reason sound editors are refusing to do a 2.1 mix, because they know that "can actually hear the dialogue" is the last reason for anyone to go see a movie in a theater...
Why doesn't it exist in the United States? Was that a decision by the people who worked there to stop working there, or was it a decision by the people who owned the factories to close them and go somewhere cheaper?
"Keep manufacturing domestic" used to be a left-wing, pro-labor position!
I always wonder why people think that doomposting about "supply shocks" and "everything's gonna cost more" is necessarily going to bring readers to their side.
It's entirely possible that someone will look at that and say "wait, why were these vital materials that we can't run society without being made overseas? Don't we remember 2020 where suddenly it was impossible to get masks because the Chinese government refused to ship them to us? Why do tariffs on Mexican imports mean that a car factory in Detroit has to shut down, shouldn't that factory be making all its own parts anyway?"
Heck, I remember in 2015 when Trump was just some weirdo that nobody was taking seriously, and people talking about how Ted Cruz looked like a drowned man's cock and Rubio was a Tio Tom and so on.
One of the things people forget about the 2018 trade thing was that China had a massive swine-flu outbreak at the time, and the trade war was less a "war" and more an expected downturn in demand. If it had been Clinton instead of Trump we wouldn't have heard much about it.
Given that the majority of these new buildings turn out to be "apartment complexes built out to the lot lines behind the original dumpy two-bed-one-bath ranch house in a way that's very clearly an exploitation of regulatory loopholes", I think Bass's move makes sense.
"I’m mostly unclear on the requirements that you have for my answers to you and the requirements that you hold for yourself when it comes to the answers you give me."
Clement doesn't want answers. He wants you to play a role. He assumes that if you refuse to play the role then saying "lol UR A RETART" is a good fall-back position, and because there's no judge here to spank his dick he keeps doing it.
Would you say that German far-right movements of the time were uniquely persecutive of queer people, relative to the rest of Western Europe and America?
This is the kind of thing people say when their first thought (and their second) is "right on" but they realize that looks bad and they think larding it up with extra words will make people accept it.
*shrug* you were the ones who said that if we didn't uncritically and unquestioningly celebrate Woke Snow White then we were racist jerks. How'd that work out for you?
They told me that if we voted for Donald Trump people would be doing Nazi salutes in public and burning electric-car dealerships...AND THEY WERE RIGHT!
*shrug* this is the world that a lot of people wanted. "if you have the Wrong Politics you should be punished", that's what we heard was Good, that's what we heard Ought To Happen.
I guess it sucks that the Wrong Politics turned out to be different from what everyone expected but, well, maybe next time it'll be your turn to call the tune.
Or we could have just not given the government such power to fuck with your life, but I guess that's just the sadistic racist transphobic conservative in me talking.
"If academia is full of a bunch of out-of-touch liberal elites, why do we want them debating medical treatments?! "
And yet if they have the Wrong Opinion regarding these treatments then that's terribly important and we need to make sure everyone knows about it (and punishes them for it).
Although you're right, in a sense, that this isn't debate; it's more of an excommunication for profession of heresy.
"In that vein, Scott Alexander asks: What Happened To NAEP Scores?"
I have a feeling this is like "life expectancy statistics", which don't calculate "how long are you statistically likely to live" but rather "how many people similar to you died before we did this calculation", which doesn't actually say anything about you personally.
One of the things that occurs to me is that the kind of people who say they don't mind a two-day train trip are the same kind of people who consider "sit on the couch browsing social media for eighteen hours" to be a useful day spent.
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On “What To Expect When You’re Expecting a Trade War”
Thing is, once "sufficiently good" is nearly free, opportunities for "good but not top-tier" tend to dry up real fast.
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Why are you doing this?
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What makes AI good at microcode is less that it's good at microcode and more that processors are now so powerful that they don't need good microcode to run sufficiently well for the purpose.
On “Open Mic for the Week of 4/7/2025”
Maybe this is the reason sound editors are refusing to do a 2.1 mix, because they know that "can actually hear the dialogue" is the last reason for anyone to go see a movie in a theater...
On “What To Expect When You’re Expecting a Trade War”
Why doesn't it exist in the United States? Was that a decision by the people who worked there to stop working there, or was it a decision by the people who owned the factories to close them and go somewhere cheaper?
"Keep manufacturing domestic" used to be a left-wing, pro-labor position!
"
I always wonder why people think that doomposting about "supply shocks" and "everything's gonna cost more" is necessarily going to bring readers to their side.
It's entirely possible that someone will look at that and say "wait, why were these vital materials that we can't run society without being made overseas? Don't we remember 2020 where suddenly it was impossible to get masks because the Chinese government refused to ship them to us? Why do tariffs on Mexican imports mean that a car factory in Detroit has to shut down, shouldn't that factory be making all its own parts anyway?"
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Heck, I remember in 2015 when Trump was just some weirdo that nobody was taking seriously, and people talking about how Ted Cruz looked like a drowned man's cock and Rubio was a Tio Tom and so on.
"
One of the things people forget about the 2018 trade thing was that China had a massive swine-flu outbreak at the time, and the trade war was less a "war" and more an expected downturn in demand. If it had been Clinton instead of Trump we wouldn't have heard much about it.
On “Open Mic for the Week of 4/7/2025”
Given that the majority of these new buildings turn out to be "apartment complexes built out to the lot lines behind the original dumpy two-bed-one-bath ranch house in a way that's very clearly an exploitation of regulatory loopholes", I think Bass's move makes sense.
On “Martin Niemöller, and Who First They Came For”
You don't have much to do, huh?
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"I’m mostly unclear on the requirements that you have for my answers to you and the requirements that you hold for yourself when it comes to the answers you give me."
Clement doesn't want answers. He wants you to play a role. He assumes that if you refuse to play the role then saying "lol UR A RETART" is a good fall-back position, and because there's no judge here to spank his dick he keeps doing it.
"
Would you say that German far-right movements of the time were uniquely persecutive of queer people, relative to the rest of Western Europe and America?
On “Weekend Plans Post: Pantherine Vandals”
It's just like Apollo 13, if Apollo 13 were somehow caused by cats!
On “Don’t Go Torching Cyber Trucks”
"How I feel about this is incredibly complicated"
This is the kind of thing people say when their first thought (and their second) is "right on" but they realize that looks bad and they think larding it up with extra words will make people accept it.
On “Open Mic for the week of 3/24/25”
*shrug* you were the ones who said that if we didn't uncritically and unquestioningly celebrate Woke Snow White then we were racist jerks. How'd that work out for you?
On “Don’t Go Torching Cyber Trucks”
They told me that if we voted for Donald Trump people would be doing Nazi salutes in public and burning electric-car dealerships...AND THEY WERE RIGHT!
On “Open Mic for the week of 3/24/25”
Harry gay?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxrWuE5qC5c
On “Open Mic for the week of 3/17/25”
*shrug* this is the world that a lot of people wanted. "if you have the Wrong Politics you should be punished", that's what we heard was Good, that's what we heard Ought To Happen.
I guess it sucks that the Wrong Politics turned out to be different from what everyone expected but, well, maybe next time it'll be your turn to call the tune.
Or we could have just not given the government such power to fuck with your life, but I guess that's just the sadistic racist transphobic conservative in me talking.
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"“How is radio astronomy Marxist?” is a question that I can’t imagine any government spokesperson answering well."
Oh, is that what they mean when they talk about Fully Automated Space Luxury Communisum?
On “Spaghetti on the Wall: Autopens and Out to Lunch Presidents”
"not only did that take over the Open Mic, but now we have an actual front page article on it."
Write a post of your own, then.
Or maybe just run away and never ever come back here. I promise that we will miss you a whole lot.
On “From The New York Times Editorial Board: The Authoritarian Endgame on Higher Education”
"If academia is full of a bunch of out-of-touch liberal elites, why do we want them debating medical treatments?! "
And yet if they have the Wrong Opinion regarding these treatments then that's terribly important and we need to make sure everyone knows about it (and punishes them for it).
Although you're right, in a sense, that this isn't debate; it's more of an excommunication for profession of heresy.
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" Transition would imply you change when you do it, which…would have people flipping back and forth every time they took a pill? What?"
So what are the pills for, then?
On “Saturday Morning Gaming: Gems in the Steam Spring Sale”
All the good use cases for AI/ChatGPT seem to be the kind of Intelligent Assistant things that they imagined we'd have back in the late 1990s.
On “Open Mic for the week of 3/10/25”
"In that vein, Scott Alexander asks: What Happened To NAEP Scores?"
I have a feeling this is like "life expectancy statistics", which don't calculate "how long are you statistically likely to live" but rather "how many people similar to you died before we did this calculation", which doesn't actually say anything about you personally.
On “Of Amtrak, AI, and Arguing About Trains on the Interwebs”
One of the things that occurs to me is that the kind of people who say they don't mind a two-day train trip are the same kind of people who consider "sit on the couch browsing social media for eighteen hours" to be a useful day spent.
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